My new Lumix (Panasonic DMC-LX3) camera can take RAW images. The camera comes with software called Silkypix that can read and process the raw images, which btw have extension RW2.
I was hoping Irfanview could read them (is there some plugin I don't know about?), but it cannot.
When Irfanview encounters one of these RW2 files it thinks they are tiff files and prompts with a question window that says something like: tif file found with incorrect extension, do you want to fix it?. If you answer yes Irfanview changes the extension, but still cannot open the picture, because, of course it is not really a tif file. So I change the extension back to RW2 like it should be, but too my dismay, the file content (header info maybe) has also been changed and silkypix cannot open it anymore either.
In effect, irfanview trashed the picture .. there seems to be no way to get it to open with anything after answering 'yes' to the irfanview prompt.
Now, the picture was not very important, so mostly I just wanted to say that I think Irfanview should be modified so as not to mis-identify RW2 pictures as tiff, and not corrupt them.
Also, is there any plugin available or in the offing to allow Irfanview to open RW2 files?
Thanks for any help/comments/replies.
--Jim
I was hoping Irfanview could read them (is there some plugin I don't know about?), but it cannot.
When Irfanview encounters one of these RW2 files it thinks they are tiff files and prompts with a question window that says something like: tif file found with incorrect extension, do you want to fix it?. If you answer yes Irfanview changes the extension, but still cannot open the picture, because, of course it is not really a tif file. So I change the extension back to RW2 like it should be, but too my dismay, the file content (header info maybe) has also been changed and silkypix cannot open it anymore either.
In effect, irfanview trashed the picture .. there seems to be no way to get it to open with anything after answering 'yes' to the irfanview prompt.
Now, the picture was not very important, so mostly I just wanted to say that I think Irfanview should be modified so as not to mis-identify RW2 pictures as tiff, and not corrupt them.
Also, is there any plugin available or in the offing to allow Irfanview to open RW2 files?
Thanks for any help/comments/replies.
--Jim
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